percoll

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Noun

percoll (uncountable)

1. A colloidal suspension of silica coated with PVP, used in the density gradient centrifugation of cells.
   • 2015 May 7, Wen Gao et al., “Plasma membrane proteomic analysis of human Gastric Cancer tissues: revealing flotillin 1 as a marker for Gastric Cancer”, in BMC Cancer‎^[1], volume 15, →DOI:

     In this research, we used a percoll/sucrose density gradient approach for plasma membrane enrichment combined with TMT technology using nano liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry analysis to identify specifically differentially expressed proteins in GC tissues compared with adjacent normal tissues.

Anagrams

• Procell